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            <p><b>Promotus Advertising</b>, located in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis"
                    title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, was
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            <p>Promotus Advertising was founded during a time when there were very few African Americans working in the
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                        href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Promotus used this fact to position itself as an urban and
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                    id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Revenue increased to just
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                                        href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073106/http://www.bluechipaward.com/winner_stories.cfm/Winner/66">"Archived
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                                        href="http://www.bluechipaward.com/winner_stories.cfm/Winner/66">the
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